The lucky thing about living in a big city is many resources are available. The problem is how to narrow them down.

Example: To find a wedding photographer, I searched 3 wedding websites and read countless forums which led me to ...

300 photographers. I meticulously scanned through their portfolios and narrowed the list down to ...

116 photographers. within our budget. I then ranked them according to the artistry of their work. That reduced the list to ...

68 photographers. Of these, I picked those specialising in photojournalistic style ...

40 photographers. I then pass the list to Kelly who would look through these 40 photographers and decide which ones he like.

After K has looked through those 40, we will determine who we both like. It's all very democratic and using this modus operation, we have drawn up the guest list, budget list, location list, officiator list, dance studio list and invitation-to-order list.

Of course if this were a work report, the list would be more concise. But where work reports has fixed criterias, things like wedding venues and photographers are subjective. It's super time consuming and tedious I know. But once you have selected a vendor, that's it. You leave your biggest day to the hands of this stranger and you want to make sure you find one that you really like and are comfortable with. I wish all the jie meis were here!

*** I have also been busy with our wedding website. Once it's done, I will post the link here. We are going to do it for the US wedding only since it's more the custom here.